Nicholas Udall Quotes

Nicholas Udall was an English playwright, cleric, and schoolmaster, the author of Ralph Roister Doister, generally regarded as the first comedy written in the English language. Wikipedia  

✵ 1505 – 23. December 1556

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Famous Nicholas Udall Quotes

“Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele.”

Tom Trupenie, Act IV, sc. v.
Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1553)

“Gay love, God save it, so soone hotte, so soone colde.”

Christian Custance, Act IV, sc. viii.
Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1553)

“For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health.”

Prologue.
Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1553)

“Wowers never speede well, that have a false harte.”

Mathew Merygreeke, Act I, sc. ii.
Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1553)

“I am sorie God made me so comely.”

Ralph Roister Doister, Act I, sc. ii.
Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1553)

“Yea, Custance, better (they say) a bad excuse than none.”

Gawin Goodluck, Act V, sc. ii.
Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1553)

“That same manne, that renneth awaye,
Maye again fight, an other daye.”

Apophthegmes (London, 1542) vol. 2, fol. 335<sup>v</sup>.

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